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To: Taro who wrote (247748)	8/29/2005 3:58:04 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1572208

Re: Gustave, you ever checked out your IQ? LOL... No, I didn't. But, frankly, apart from white Americans, WHO cares about IQ? I know it's a big fancy for you but, over here, in "Ol' Europe", nobody cares. I'd even say that most Europeans agree with the quip: "what the IQ measures is the score of some mind-game known as IQ...." Meaning that the IQ is but a circular measuring of sorts. I also suspect it serves as a fallback to make up for a lack of culture and worldliness. IQ is a narrow, biased measurement of a peculiar kind of "intelligence" --e.g., the intelligence that allows Kasparov to beat the best chess computer. Likewise, you've got all these TV quiz geniuses who can compute, solve puzzles, and crack mind games faster than anybody else, but whose creativity is nil... Every year, there's a French proficiency contest known as the Dictée Pivot() broadcast by the French TV (France2/3) --after the name of a famous literary talkshow host Bernard Pivot. The winner is the participant whose copy is faultless. Now the funny thing is that none of the French luminaries and literati (Goncourt prizewinners, former or current Minister(s) of Education Nationale, members of Académie Française, star journalists, renowned writers, etc.) ever made it to the top contestants! If the Dictée Pivot* is any guide, those who best know and master the French language are teenage nerds, retirees hooked on crosswords, and Scrabble(R) freaks.... Gus (*) blog.killers.cx edufle.net